Rooney: we must attack

Wayne Rooney believes that Man Utd must attack if they are to stand any chance of winning the Champions League against Chelsea in Moscow this evening. Sir Alex is believed to be considering a very attacking line up for the crunch match this evening.

"If we go in there negatively and defensively, Chelsea have a good enough team to punish us," Rooney said.

"We just have to relax and play the free-flowing football we have played most of the season.

"We said when we got to the final how good it would be to beat an English team, but also how much it would hurt if we lost.

"To get so close and if we didn't manage to win it, particularly to an English team like Chelsea, would be a nightmare.

"We're meeting up with the Chelsea players a couple of days later with England, so defeat would be pretty difficult to take.

"Opportunities like this don't come around very often, so you have to do everything you can to make the most of them. And that's what we intend to do."